Tomoko Akane

Tomoko Akane (born June 28, 1956 ) is a Japanese lawyer , professor and judge at the International Criminal Court .

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Akane studied from 1975 law at the University of Tokyo . There she obtained her degree in 1980 with a Bachelor of Laws . She then completed the legal admission procedure, which she completed in 1982. From 1982 to 1989 she worked as a prosecutor in Yokohama , Tsu and Nagoya, among others . In 1990 she acquired after an appropriate abroad at Jacksonville State University the title of Master of Science in Criminal Justice . After her return to Japan, she worked again as a public prosecutor in Sendai and Tokyo until 1996, focusing on violent and economic crimes. In April 1996 she became a professor at the Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (UNAFEI) , which cooperated with the United Nations in Tokyo. From April 2000, she headed the public prosecutor's office in Sapporo until she returned to UNAFEI as deputy director in 2002. From 2005 to 2008 Akane was a professor at Nagoya University and Chukyo University . This was followed by repeated activities as a public prosecutor in the public prosecutor's office and the chief prosecutor's office in Tokyo, as head of the public prosecutor's office in Hakodate and a position in the Japanese Ministry of Justice. In 2013 she became director of UNAFEI. From 2014 to 2016 she headed the Institute for Research and Education in the Japanese Ministry of Justice. From April 2016, she was the Japanese Ambassador for International Legal Cooperation at the Japanese Foreign Ministry.

Akane has been a judge at the International Criminal Court since March 2018 . There she worked in the Sudan-related proceedings against Umar al-Baschir , Abdel Rahim Mohammed Hussein , Ahmad Harun , Ali Kuschaib , in the Central African Republic proceedings against Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona and Alfred Yekatom, and in the proceedings against Joseph Kony and Simone Gbagbo with. Their term of office is expected to last until March 10, 2027.

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• Akane at the ICC